⊰ix⊱ // song/text // towncriers

[auguria]

[A strange song, an eerie twining of bird-whistles and vocalization floats out from the device. Shortly after, a voice whispers a translation which is then transcribed into text:]

GOOD GRACIOUS!

They say there is a fairy in every streak'd tulip. I have rows and rows of them beside my door. Hoop-la ! Come out, Brownie, And I will give you an emerald ear-ring! You had better come out, For to-morrow may be stormy, And I could never bring myself to part with my   emerald ear-rings Unless there was a moon.

[[ooc; Maybe check out his permissions! The poem is by Amy Lowell from Pictures of the Floating World... but maybe don't recognize it. I'm sorry I'm too lazy to write my own poem for this. Sob.]]

Comments

[errandry]

... Jast?

[auguria]

[Sheeeepishly.]

Hello, Kazu. It is... a noisy day.

[errandry]

Thaaat's what they kinda invented earplugs for! Think you'll live?

[auguria]

[A soft laugh.]

Yes, it does not bother me so much. Perhaps it disturbs others, however.

[errandry]

It's just noise this time, pretty sure they'll get over it.

[auguria]

I'm glad. It is interesting to hear what they have cried. Such curious announcements.

[errandry]

You mean like SCREW THIS PLACE?

[auguria]

[Ffft.]

You do not care for it here, Kazu?

[errandry]

I just heard it a lot today, that's all. That's kinda what they boiled down to, anyway.

[auguria]

I do not think the gods here listen to such pleas.

[errandry]

—yeah, they better not! They can take the place down after we get out of here.

[auguria]

I wonder how it would be taken down...

[That's a curious thought.]

howwww did I miss this, sob.

[errandry]

Well, it's their dimension, right? They change it up for curses anyway.

by accident~

[auguria]

Is it theirs? Sometimes I am not certain, there is so much chaos in the weaving of this place, always changing, as you say.

[errandry]

... people keep saying that. But there's no way dimensions just get left lying around for tyrants to move in and take over.

[auguria]

They are very kind, for tyrants. If somewhat... whimsical. There are many unused corners in existence, they are the implied spaces.

[errandry]

... what, you think this is one of 'em?

[ being certain of a point |-------------------------------------| Kazu. ]

[auguria]

I do. Do you remember when everyone believed themselves to be school children? The deities seemed to believe their roles in it as well. I am not certain that they control this place, though they certainly maintain it.

[errandry]

You sure about that? I thought they were just acting! The viking had her helmet on the whole time!

[auguria]

She shouldn't have?

[errandry]

Most school principals don't... I guess it'd be kinda cool if they did, but that's different!

[auguria]

This is not most schools.

[errandry]

Yeah, exactly! Everybody else who got cursed acted normal.

[auguria]

[He laughs softly. What is normal?]

I see.

[errandry]

You still think they were affected, though?

[auguria]

A theory, I will keep both in mind.